[XeTeX] xelatex and tikzpicture

[Mike Maxwell]

> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Mike Maxwell wrote:
>> Dia will also output a .tex file, which uses the tikz package.  I tried this,
>> using \input{<filename>.tex} in my xelatex file (along with the
>> \usepackage{tikz} and \usepackage{morewrites}).  I get approximately half a
>> bazillion warnings from xelatex, and while it outputs a PDF, the diagram does
>> not appear (there's a mostly blank page).
>
> I use TikZ with XeLaTeX all the time and I've never had problems such as
> you describe.  It would be interesting to see one of the .tex files that
> doesn't work.

Ok, let me make a minimal example.  (May not get to it today...)

> Why are you using "morewrites"?

Because it was running out of places to write to (there's a limit of 16 files, I understand) without 
morewrites.
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